Information about the army?

The Army Reserve is part time. You do whatever you want when you aren't doing your drills or annual training.

When you are in the Guard or Reserves, you enter Basic and Advanced Training for a few months, and then you come home to go to school or work, or whatever. The military part of your life is 39 days a year.

That first answer was true in the past, but during the Iraq/Afghanistan situations it's my understanding that some/many reservists did get called up to active duty.

(I think there may be some fine print in the military contract that allows the government to do that "in special circumstances," but I think most people including the reservists themselves didn't know about that till it started happening--when the military ran out of volunteer military personnel and needed more, etc).

I don't know if the process of joining the Reserves has changed these days or not, but you'd better make darned sure you find out about the possibility of being called to active duty before committing to something you may not think you're committing to. In fact, it might be best to get it in writing since there seem to have been recruits of active and reserve military who had been "assured" by a recruiter, etc, that that wouldn't be the case but found out that was wrong only when it was too late.**

Even active duty military were held longer than their agreed-to enlistment periods during those times, and it could happen any time the President decides it's a "special occasion."

https://www.google.com/search?q=military+reserves

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** https://www.google.com/search?q=military+reserves+...

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